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Old 08-23-2011, 10:15 AM
James Langham James Langham is offline
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Originally Posted by atiff View Post
I am sure Leg can comment better on this but... Australian and NZ armed forces would be involved allies, not subordinates. This is engrained after the experiences of WWII.

Even with my limited knowledge, I would feel 99% confident in saying "regular Aus and NZ forces would not join a shooting war in Europe". (Specialist units like SAS might be different.) Regulars might replace British units in the Far East so that those units can go elsewhere, though.

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Andrew
it's not likely but in Korea they did form part of the Commonwealth Division (which also included Belgians under its command!). The 7th COULD become a Commonwealth Division.
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